2016 Military History Catalog by University of Oklahoma Press

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Military History

CONTENTS Napoleonic Era. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Colonial to Antebellum Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 American Civil War to Turn of the Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Twentieth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 New in Paperback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Coming Fall 2016. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 For more than eighty-five years, the University of Oklahoma Press has published award-winning military history books and we are proud to bring to you our latest catalog. The catalog features the newest titles from both the University of Oklahoma Press and the Arthur H. Clark Company. For a complete list of titles available from OU Press or the Arthur H. Clark Company, please visit our website at oupress.com. We hope you enjoy this catalog and appreciate your continued support of the University of Oklahoma Press. Price and availability subject to change without notice. On the cover and in the catalog: Emanuel Leutze, Washington at the Battle of Monmouth, 1857. Courtesy of the Monmouth County Historical Association, Freehold, New Jersey. Gift of the descendants of David Leavitt, 1937.

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Napoleonic Era Titan British Power in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon By William R. Nester $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5205-9 · 376 Pages The interplay of individuals and events, the importance of conjunctures and contingency, the significance of Britain’s island character and resources: all come into play in Nester’s exploration of the art of British military diplomacy. The result is a comprehensive and insightful account of the endeavors of statesmen and generals to master the art of power in a complex battle for empire.

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The Man Who Captured Washington Major General Robert Ross and the War of 1812 By John McCavitt and Christopher T. George $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5164-9 · 312 Pages Despite a military career that included distinguished service in Europe and North Africa, Ross is better known for his actions than his name: his 1814 campaign in the Chesapeake Bay resulted in the burning of the White House and Capitol and the unsuccessful assault on Baltimore, immortalized in “The Star Spangled Banner.” The Man Who Captured Washington is the first in-depth biography of this important but largely forgotten historical figure.

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European Armies of the French Revolution, 1789–1802 Edited by Frederick C. Schneid S34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4039-1 · 288 Pages In nine essays by leading scholars, European Armies of the French Revolution, 1789– 1802 provides an authoritative, continent-wide analysis of the organization and constitution of these armies, the challenges they faced, and the impact they had on the French Revolutionary Wars and on European military practices. The volume opens with editor Frederick C. Schneid’s substantial introduction, which reviews the strategies and policies of each participating state throughout the wars, establishing a clear context for the essays that follow.

Women in the Peninsular War By Charles J. Esdaile $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4478-8 · 336 Pages In Women in the Peninsular War, Esdaile looks beyond the iconography. While a handful of Spanish and Portuguese women became Agustina-like heroines, a multitude became victims, and here both of these groups receive their due. But Esdaile reveals a much more complicated picture in which women are discovered to have experienced, responded to, and participated in the conflict in various ways.

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Blücher Scourge of Napoleon By Michael V. Leggiere $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4409-2 · 568 Pages One of the most colorful characters in the Napoleonic pantheon, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819) is best known as the Prussian general who, along with the Duke of Wellington, defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. This magnificent biography by Michael V. Leggiere, an awardwinning historian of the Napoleonic Wars, is the first scholarly book in English to explore Blücher’s life and military career—and his impact on Napoleon.

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Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword The British Regiment on Campaign, 1808–1815 By Andrew Bamford $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4343-9 · 328 Pages Although an army’s success is often measured in battle outcomes, its victories depend on strengths that may be less obvious on the field. In Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword, military historian Andrew Bamford assesses the effectiveness of the British Army in sustained campaigning during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Outpost of Empire The Napoleonic Occupation of Andalucía, 1810–1812 By Charles J. Esdaile $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4278-4 · 512 Pages Napoleon’s forces invaded Spain in 1808, but two years went by before they overran the southern region of Andalucía. Situated at the farthest frontier of Napoleon’s “outer empire,” Andalucía remained under French control only briefly—for two-and-a-half years—and never experienced the normal functions of French rule. In this groundbreaking examination of the Peninsular War, Charles J. Esdaile moves beyond traditional military history to examine the French occupation of Andalucía and the origins and results of the region’s complex and chaotic response.

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On Wellington A Critique of Waterloo Translated, edited, and annotated by Peter Hofschröer $32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4108-4 · 272 Pages Carl von Clausewitz, the Western world’s most renowned military theorist, participated in the Waterloo campaign as a senior staff officer in the Prussian army. His appraisal, offered here in an up-to-date and readable translation, criticized the Duke of Wellington’s actions. Now published for the first time in English, Hofschröer brings Clausewitz’s critique back into view with thorough annotation and contextual explanation.

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Wellingtons Two-Front War The Peninsular Campaigns, at Home and Abroad, 1808–1814 By Joshua Moon $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4157-2 · 272 Pages Sir Arthur Wellesley’s 1808–1814 campaigns against Napoleon’s forces in the Iberian Peninsula have drawn the attention of scholars and soldiers for two centuries. In Wellington’s Two-Front War, Joshua Moon not only surveys Wellington’s command of British forces against the French but also describes the battles Wellington fought in England—with an archaic military command structure, bureaucracy, and fickle public opinion.

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Napoleon’s Enfant Terrible General Dominique Vandamme By John G. Gallaher $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3875-6 · 384 Pages A dedicated career soldier and excellent division and corps commander, Dominique Vandamme was a thorn in the side of practically every officer he served. Outspoken to a fault, he even criticized Napoleon, whom he never forgave for not appointing him marshal. His military prowess so impressed the emperor, however, that he returned Vandamme to command time and again. In this first book-length study of Vandamme in English, John G. Gallaher traces the career of one of Napoleon’s most successful midrank officers.

Architects of Empire The Duke of Wellington and His Brothers By John Severn $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3810-7 · 512 Pages A soldier and statesman for the ages, the Duke of Wellington is a towering figure in world history. John Severn now offers a fresh look at the man born Arthur Wellesley to show that his career was very much a family affair, a lifelong series of interactions with his brothers and their common Anglo-Irish heritage. The untold story of a great family drama, Architects of Empire paints a new picture of the era through the collective biography of Wellesley and his siblings.

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Fatal Sunday George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle By Mark E. Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5335-3 · 616 Pages The Battle of Monmouth was critical to the success of the Revolution. It also marked a decisive turning point in the military career of George Washington. Without the victory at Monmouth Courthouse, Washington’s critics might well have marshaled the political strength to replace him as the American commander-in-chief. Authors Mark Edward Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone argue that in political terms, the Battle of Monmouth constituted a pivotal moment in the War for Independence.

Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification A Guide By Daniel M. Sivilich $34.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5158-8 · 232 Pages Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification: A Guide traces the history of musket balls and small shot, and explores their uses as lethal projectiles and in nonlethal alterations. Sivilich asks—and answers—a variety of questions to demonstrate how a musket ball found in a military context can help to interpret the site.

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The Army Surveys of Gold Rush California Reports of Topographical Engineers, 1849–1851 Edited by Gary Clayton Anderson and Laura Lee Anderson $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-430-8 · 256 Pages Historian Gary Clayton Anderson and anthropologist Laura Lee Anderson provide historical, geographic, and biographical context in the book’s introduction and in headnotes and annotations for each journal. These documents offer extraordinary firsthand views of the environment, natural resources, geography, and early settlement, as well as the effects of disease on Native and white populations.

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The Battle of Lake Champlain A “Brilliant and Extraordinary Victory” By John H. Schroeder $26.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4693-5 · 184 Pages On September 11, 1814, an American naval squadron under Master Commandant Thomas Macdonough defeated a formidable British force on Lake Champlain under the command of Captain George Downie. Examining the naval and land campaign in strategic, political, and military terms, from planning to execution to outcome, The Battle of Lake Champlain offers the most thorough account written of this pivotal moment in American history.

William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest By William Heath $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5119-9 · 520 Pages Born to Anglo-American parents on the Appalachian frontier, captured by the Miami Indians at the age of thirteen, and adopted into the tribe, William Wells (1770–1812) moved between two cultures all his life but was comfortable in neither. Vilified by some historians for his divided loyalties, he remains relatively unknown even though he is worthy of comparison with such famous frontiersmen as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett.

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Connecticut Unscathed Victory in the Great Narragansett War, 1675–1676 By Jason W. Warren $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4475-7 · 240 Pages The conflict that historians have called King Philip’s War still ranks as one of the bloodiest per capita in American history. But because Connecticut lacked a chronicler, its experience has gone largely untold. As Jason Warren makes clear in Connecticut Unscathed, this imbalance has generated an incomplete narrative of the war.

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Defender of Canada Sir George Prevost and the War of 1812 By John R. Grodzinski $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4387-3 · 360 Pages Defender of Canada, the first book-length examination of Prevost’s career, offers a reinterpretation of the general’s military leadership in the War of 1812. Historian John R. Grodzinski shows that Prevost deserves far greater credit for the successful defense of Canada than he has heretofore received.

George Rogers Clark “I Glory in War” By William R. Nester $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4294-4 · 384 Pages George Rogers Clark led four victorious campaigns against the Indians and British during the American Revolution. Although historians have ranked him among the greatest rebel commanders, Clark’s name is all but forgotten today. William R. Nester resurrects the story of Clark’s triumphs and his downfall in this, the first full biography of the man in more than fifty years.

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A Perfect Gibraltar The Battle for Monterrey, Mexico, 1846 By Christopher D. Dishman $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4140-4 · 344 Pages For three days in the fall of 1846, U.S. and Mexican soldiers fought fiercely in the picturesque city of Monterrey, turning the northern Mexican town, known for its towering mountains and luxurious gardens, into one of the nineteenth century’s most gruesome battlefields. Led by Brigadier General Zachary Taylor, graduates of the new U.S. Military Academy encountered a city almost perfectly protected by mountains, a river, and a vast plain. Monterrey’s ideal defensive position inspired more than one U.S. soldier to call the city “a perfect Gibraltar.”

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At Sword’s Point, Part 1 A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858 By William P. MacKinnon $45.00s Cloth • 978-0-87062-353-0 • 544 Pages The Utah War of 1857–58, the unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormon Utah Territory and the U.S. government, was the most extensive American military action between the Mexican and Civil wars. At Sword’s Point presents in two volumes the first in-depth narrative and documentary history of that extraordinary conflict.

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The Far Reaches of Empire War in Nova Scotia, 1710–1760 By John Grenier $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3876-3 · 288 Pages The Far Reaches of Empire chronicles the half century of Anglo-American efforts to establish dominion in Nova Scotia, an important French foothold in the New World. John Grenier examines the conflict of cultures and peoples in the colonial Northeast through the lens of military history as he tells how Britons and Yankees waged a tremendously efficient counterinsurgency that ultimately crushed every remnant of Acadian, Indian, and French resistance in Nova Scotia.

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Kill Jeff Davis The Union Raid on Richmond, 1864 By Bruce M. Venter $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-5153-3 · 384 Pages The ostensible goal of the controversial Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on Richmond was to free some 13,000 Union prisoners of war held in the Confederate capital. But orders found on the dead body of the raid’s subordinate commander, Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, point instead to a plot to capture or kill Confederate president Jefferson Davis and set Richmond ablaze. Kill Jeff Davis offers a fresh look at the failed raid and mines newly discovered documents and little-known sources to provide definitive answers.

Fort Bascom Soldiers, Comancheros, and Indians in the Canadian River Valley By James Bailey Blackshear $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5209-7 · 272 Pages In Fort Bascom, James Bailey Blackshear presents the definitive history of this critical outpost in the American Southwest, along with a detailed view of army life on the late-nineteenth-century western frontier. Blackshear shows the difficulties of maintaining a post in a harsh environment where scarce water and forage, long supply lines, poorly constructed facilities, and monotonous duty tested soldiers’ endurance.

Photographing Custer’s Battlefield The Images of Kenneth F. Roahen By Sandy Barnard $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5159-5 · 280 Pages In Photographing Custer’s Battlefield, Sandy Barnard, an expert on Custer and the Little Big Horn, presents the work of the site’s most dedicated photographer, U.S. Fish and Game agent Kenneth F. Roahen (1888–1976), revealing further mysteries of the battlefield and showing how it has changed.

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The Civil War Years in Utah The Kingdom of God and the Territory That Did Not Fight By John Gary Maxwell $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4911-0 · 488 Pages While the Civil War spread death, tragedy, and sorrow across the continent, Utah Territory remained virtually untouched. Although the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—and its faithful—proudly praise the service of an 1862 Mormon cavalry company during the Civil War, Maxwell’s research exposes the relatively inconsequential contribution of these Nauvoo Legion soldiers.

Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance Other Sides of Civil War Texas Edited by Jesús F. de la Teja $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5182-3 · 296 Pages $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5183-0 · 296 Pages Concluding with an account of the origins of Juneteenth—the nationally celebrated holiday marking June 19, 1865, when emancipation was announced in Texas—Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance challenges the collective historical memory of Civil War Texas and its place in both the Confederacy and the United States. It provides material for a fresh narrative, one including people on the margins of history and dispelling the myth of a monolithically Confederate Texas.

Blood on the Marias The Baker Massacre By Paul R. Wylie $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5157-1 · 336 Pages While other scholars have written about the Baker Massacre in related contexts, Blood on the Marias gives this infamous event the definitive treatment it deserves. Baker’s inept command lit the spark of violence, but decades of tension between Piegans and whites set the stage for a brutal and too-oftenforgotten incident.

Through Indian Sign Language The Fort Sill Ledgers of Hugh Lenox Scott and Iseeo, 1889–1897 Edited by William C. Meadows $55.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4727-7 · 520 Pages The Scott ledgers contain an array of historical, linguistic, and ethnographic data—a wealth of primary-source material on Southern Plains Indian people. Meadows describes Plains Indian Sign Language, its origins and history, and its significance to anthropologists. He also sketches the lives of Scott and Iseeo, explaining how they met, how Scott learned the language, and how their working relationship developed and served them both.

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Californio Lancers The 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry in the Far West, 1863–1866 By Tom Prezelski $32.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-436-0 · 248 Pages Although some ten thousand Spanish-surnamed Americans served during the Civil War, their support of the Union is almost unknown in the popular imagination. Californio Lancers contributes to our understanding of the Civil War in the Far West and how it transformed the Mexican-American community.

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Health of the Seventh Cavalry A Medical History Edited by P. Willey and Douglas D. Scott $32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4839-7 · 480 Pages In Health of the Seventh Cavalry, editors P. Willey and Douglas D. Scott and their co-contributors—experts in history, medicine, human biology, epidemiology, and human osteology—examine the Seventh’s medical records to determine the health of the nineteenth-century U.S. Army, and the prevalence and treatment of the numerous conditions that plagued soldiers during the Indian Wars.

The Gray Fox George Crook and the Indian Wars By Paul Magid $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4706-2 · 480 Pages As Paul Magid portrays Crook in this highly readable second volume of a projected three-volume biography, the general was an innovative and eccentric soldier, with a complex and often contradictory personality, whose activities often generated intense controversy. Though known for his uncompromising ferocity in battle, he nevertheless respected his enemy and grew to know them.

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Before Custer Surveying the Yellowstone, 1872 By M. John Lubetkin $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-431-5 · 328 Pages The firsthand accounts compiled here by M. John Lubetkin document the survey’s three-month struggle with the Lakotas and other Plains Indian people. Before Custer: Surveying the Yellowstone, 1872 tells of a little-known but crucial episode in the history of westward expansion and Native peoples’ efforts to halt that expansion.

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Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey A Documentary History $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-422-3 · 320 pages $125.00s Limited Edition · 978-0-87062-427-8 · 320 pages Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey examines the expedition told through documents selected and interpreted by historian M. John Lubetkin. The U.S. Army was determined to punish the Sioux, and the Northern Pacific desperately needed to complete its engineering work and resume construction. The expedition mounted in 1873—larger than all previous surveys combined—included “embedded” newspaper correspondents and 1,600 infantry and cavalry, the latter led by George Armstrong Custer.

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The Early Morning of War Bull Run, 1861 By Edward G. Longacre $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4498-6 · 648 Pages This crucial campaign receives its most complete and comprehensive treatment in Edward G. Longacre’s The Early Morning of War. A magisterial work by a veteran historian, The Early Morning of War blends narrative and analysis to convey the full scope of the campaign of First Bull Run—its drama and suspense as well as its practical and tactical underpinnings and ramifications.

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Soldiers in the Army of Freedom The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War’s First African American Combat Unit By Ian Michael Spurgeon $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4618-8 · 400 Pages Soldiers in the Army of Freedom is the first published account of this largely forgotten regiment and, in particular, its contribution to Union victory in the trans-Mississippi theater of the Civil War. As such, it restores the First Kansas Colored Infantry to its rightful place in American history.

A Corporal’s Story Civil War Recollections of the Twelfth Massachusetts By George Kimball Edited by Alan D. Gaff and Donald H. Gaff $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4480-1 · 368 Pages When George Kimball (1840–1916) joined the Twelfth Massachusetts in 1861, he’d been in the newspaper trade for five years. When he mustered out three years later, having been wounded at Fredericksburg and again at Gettysburg (mortally, it was mistakenly assumed at the time), he returned to newspaper life. Collected in A Corporal’s Story, Kimball’s writings form a unique narrative of one man’s experience in the Civil War, viewed through a perspective enhanced by time and reflection.

American Carnage Wounded Knee, 1890 By Jerome A. Greene $34.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4448-1 · 648 Pages In this gripping tale, Jerome A. Greene—renowned specialist on the Indian wars—explores why the bloody engagement happened and demonstrates how it became a brutal massacre. Drawing on a wealth of sources, including previously unknown testimonies, Greene examines the events from both Native and non-Native perspectives, explaining the significance of treaties, white settlement, political disputes, and the Ghost Dance as influential factors in what eventually took place.

The River Was Dyed with Blood Nathan Bedford Forrest and Fort Pillow By Brian Steel Wills $29.95 Cloth • 978-0-8061-4453-5 · 288 Pages In The River Was Dyed with Blood, best-selling Forrest biographer Brian Steel Wills argues that although atrocities did occur after the fall of the fort, Forrest did not order or intend a systematic execution of its defenders. Rather, the general’s great failing was losing control of his troops. The battlescarred fighter with his homespun aphorisms was neither an infallible warrior nor a heartless butcher, but a product of his time and his heritage.

Battles and Massacres on the Southwestern Frontier Historical and Archaeological Perspectives By Ronald K. Wetherington and Frances Levine $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4440-5 · 260 Pages This unique study centers on four critical engagements between AngloAmericans and American Indians on the southwestern frontier: the Battle of Cieneguilla (1854), the Battle of Adobe Walls (1864), the Sand Creek Massacre (1864), and the Mountain Meadows Massacre (1857). Editors Ronald K. Wetherington and Frances Levine juxtapose historical and archaeological perspectives on each event to untangle the ambiguity and controversy that surround both historical and more contemporary accounts of each of these violent outbreaks.

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Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud Custer, the Press, and the Little Bighorn By James E. Mueller $29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4398-0 · 272 Pages In Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud, James E. Mueller draws on exhaustive research of period newspapers to explore press coverage of the famous battle. As he analyzes a wide range of accounts—some grim, some circumspect, some even laced with humor—Mueller offers a unique take on the dramatic events that so shook the American public.

Los Angeles in Civil War Days, 1860–1865 By John W. Robinson $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4312-5 · 204 Pages Most accounts of California’s role in the Civil War focus on the northern part of the state, San Francisco in particular. In Los Angeles in Civil War Days, John W. Robinson looks to the southern half and offers an enlightening sketch of Los Angeles and its people, politics, and economic trends from 1860 to 1865.

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Custer, the Seventh Cavalry, and the Little Big Horn A Bibliography By Michael O’Keefe $125.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-404-9 · 720 Pages Since the shocking news first broke in 1876 of the Seventh Cavalry’s disastrous defeat at the Little Big Horn, fascination with the battle—and with Lieutenant George Armstrong Custer—has never ceased. Widespread interest in the subject has spawned a vast outpouring of literature, which only increases with time. This two-volume bibliography of Custer literature is the first to be published in some twenty-five years and the most complete ever assembled.

After Custer Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country By Paul L. Hedren $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4216-2 · 272 Pages Between 1876 and 1877, the U.S. Army battled Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians in a series of vicious conflicts known today as the Great Sioux War. After the defeat of Custer at the Little Big Horn in June 1876, the army responded to its stunning loss by pouring fresh troops and resources into the war effort. In this unique contribution to American western history, Paul L. Hedren examines the war’s effects on the culture, environment, and geography of the northern Great Plains, their Native inhabitants, and the Anglo-American invaders.

Violent Encounters Interviews on Western Massacres By Deborah Lawrence and Jon Lawrence $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4126-8 · 224 Pages Merciless killing in the nineteenth-century American West, as this unusual book shows, was not as simple as depicted in dime novels and movie Westerns. The scholars interviewed here, experts on violence in the West, embrace a wide range of approaches and perspectives and challenge both traditional views of western expansion and politically correct ideologies.

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Our Centennial Indian War and the Life of General Custer By Frances Fuller Victor Introduction by Jerome A. Greene $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4173-2 · 208 Pages Published even before the Great Sioux War had ended, Our Centennial Indian War and the Life of General Custer was the first contemporary and comprehensive account of the successive army operations in 1876 and early 1877. It was a major accomplishment. Victor drew information from a wide range of sources to explain the lengthy, disjointed struggle between the army and the Lakota-Cheyenne coalition.

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Red Cloud’s War The Bozeman Trail, 1866–1868 By John D. McDermott $75.00s Cloth • 978-0-87062-376-9 • 704 Pages On a cold December day in 1866, Captain William J. Fetterman disobeyed orders and spurred his men across Lodge Trail Ridge in pursuit of a group of retreating Lakota Sioux, Arapahos, and Cheyennes. He saw a perfect opportunity to punish the tribes for harassing travelers on the Bozeman Trail and attacking wood trains sent out from nearby Fort Phil Kearny. In a sudden turn of events, his command was, within moments, annihilated. John D. McDermott’s spellbinding narrative offers a cautionary tale of hubris and miscalculation.

War Party in Blue Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army By Mark van de Logt $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4139-8 · 368 Pages In War Party in Blue, Mark van de Logt tells the story of the Pawnee scouts from their perspective, detailing the battles in which they served and recounting hitherto neglected episodes.

Beyond Bear’s Paw The Nez Perce Indians in Canada By Jerome A. Greene $24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4068-1 · 264 Pages Beyond Bear’s Paw is the first book to explore the fate of these “nontreaty” Nez Perce Indians. Drawing on hitherto unexplored Canadian and U.S. sources, including reminiscences of Nez Perce participants, Jerome A. Greene presents an epic story of human endurance under duress.

Jayhawkers The Civil War Brigade of James Henry Lane By Bryce Benedict $32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3999-9 · 352 Pages Bringing to life an era of guerillas, bushwhackers, and slave stealers, Jayhawkers also describes how Lane’s brigade was organized and equipped and provides details regarding staff and casualties. Assessing the extent to which the jayhawkers followed accepted rules of warfare, Benedict argues that Lane set a precedent for the Union Army’s eventual adoption of “hard” tactics toward civilians.

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Class and Race in the Frontier Army Military Life in the West, 1870–1890 By Kevin Adams $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3981-4 · 296 Pages Treating the army as a laboratory to better understand American society in the Gilded Age, Adams suggests that military attitudes mirrored civilian life in that era—with enlisted men, especially, illustrating the emerging classconsciousness among the working poor. Class and Race in the Frontier Army offers fresh insight into the interplay of class, race, and ethnicity in latenineteenth-century America.

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Fort Laramie Military Bastion of the High Plains By Douglas C. McChristian $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-360-8 · 448 Pages Douglas C. McChristian has written the first complete history of Fort Laramie, chronicling every critical stage in its existence, including its addition to the National Park System. He draws on an extraordinary array of archival materials–including those at Fort Laramie National Historic Site–to present new data about the fort and new interpretations of historical events.

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Powder River Odyssey Nelson Cole’s Western Campaign of 1865 The Journals of Lyman G. Bennett and Other Eyewitness Accounts By David E. Wagner $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-359-2 · 288 Pages David E. Wagner’s Powder River Odyssey: Nelson Cole’s Western Campaign of 1865 tells the story of a largely forgotten campaign at the pivotal moment when the Civil War ended and the Indian wars captured national attention.

The Fall of a Black Army Officer Racism and the Myth of Henry O. Flipper By Charles M. Robinson III $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3521-2 · 216 Pages The Fall of a Black Army Officer boldly moves the arguments regarding racism— in both Lt. Flipper’s case and the frontier army in general—beyond political correctness. Solidly grounded in archival research, it is a thorough and provocative reassessment of the Flipper affair, at last revealing the truth.

Stricken Field The Little Bighorn since 1876 By Jerome A. Greene $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3791-9 · 384 Pages Stricken Field is a cautionary tale. Greene elucidates the conflict between the Park Service’s dual mission to provide public access while preserving the integrity of a historical resource. He also traces the complex events surrounding the site, including Indian protests in the 1970s and 1980s that ultimately contributed to the 2003 dedication of a monument finally recognizing the Lakotas, Northern Cheyennes, and other American Indians who fought there.

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Uniforms, Arms, and Equipment , 2 volume set The U.S. Army on the Western Frontier 1880–1892 By Douglas C. McChristian $50.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-9961-0 · 664 Pages Building on the success of his best-selling The U.S. Army in the West, 1870– 1880: Uniforms, Arms, and Equipment, Douglas C. McChristian here presents a two-volume comprehensive account of the evolution of military arms and equipment during the years 1880–1892. The volumes are set against the backdrop of the final decade of the Indian campaigns—a key period of transition in United States military history.

Twentieth Century Somewhere Over There The Letters, Diary, and Artwork of a World War I Corporal By Francis H. Webster Edited by Darrek D. Orwig $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5172-4 · 296 Pages Using his skills as an illustrator, Webster documented firsthand the harsh realities of combat life and regularly submitted visual dispatches of his experiences back to an Iowa newspaper. The first published collection of Webster’s wartime chronicles, Somewhere Over There presents a unique view of World War I through a rare compilation of letters, diary entries, cartoons, sketches, and watercolors.

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Rediscovering Irregular Warfare Colin Gubbins and the Origins of Britain’s Special Operations Executive By A. R. B. Linderman $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5167-0 · 288 Pages The history of the SOE’s doctrinal origins is Colin Gubbins’s story. By telling that story, Rediscovering Irregular Warfare amplifies and clarifies our understanding of the Second World War—and of doctrines of unconventional warfare in the twentieth century.

In Love and War The World War II Courtship Letters of a Nisei Couple By Melody M. Miyamoto Walters $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4820-5 · 296 Pages In Love and War recounts the wartime experiences of author Melody M. Miyamoto Walters’s grandparents, two second-generation Japanese Americans, or Nisei, living in Hawaii. Their love story, narrated in letters they wrote each other from July 1941 to June 1943, offers a unique view of Hawaiian Nisei and the social and cultural history of territorial Hawaii during World War II.

Brummett Echohawk Pawnee Thunderbird and Artist By Kristin M. Youngbull $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4826-7 · 224 Pages A true American hero who earned a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and a Congressional Gold Medal, Brummett Echohawk was also a Pawnee on the European battlefields of World War II. This first book-length biography depicts Echohawk as a soldier, painter, writer, humorist, and actor profoundly shaped by his Pawnee heritage and a man who refused to be pigeonholed as an “Indian artist.”

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Moroni and the Swastika Mormons in Nazi Germany By David Conley Nelson $24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4668-3 · 432 Pages A page-turning historical narrative, this book is the first full account of how Mormons avoided Nazi persecution through skilled collaboration with Hitler’s regime, and then eschewed postwar shame by constructing an alternative history of wartime suffering and resistance.

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The Last Cavalryman The Life of General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr. By Harvey Ferguson $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4664-5 · 448 Pages In this biography of Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., author Harvey Ferguson tells the story of how Truscott—despite his hardscrabble beginnings, patchy education, and questionable luck—not only made the rank of army lieutenant general, earning a reputation as one of World War II’s most effective officers along the way, but was also given an honorary promotion to four-star general seven years after his retirement.

The Great Call-Up The Guard, the Border, and the Mexican Revolution By Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4645-4 · 576 Pages On June 18, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson called up virtually the entire army National Guard, some 150,000 men, to meet an armed threat to the United States: border raids covertly sponsored by a Mexican government in the throes of revolution. The Great Call-Up tells for the first time the complete story of this unprecedented deployment.

The Second Pearl Harbor The West Loch Disaster, May 21, 1944 By Gene Salecker $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4476-4 · 296 Pages Military historian Gene Salecker recounts the events and conditions leading up to the explosion, then re-creates the drama directly afterward: men swimming through flaming oil, small craft desperately trying to rescue the injured, and subsequent explosions throwing flaming debris everywhere. With meticulous attention to detail the author explains why he and other historians believe that the official explanation for the cause of the explosion, that a mortar shell was accidentally detonated, is wrong.

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Special Operations in World War II British and American Irregular Warfare By Andrew L. Hargreaves $36.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4396-5 · 352 Pages In this book, Andrew L. Hargreaves not only describes tactics and operations but also outlines the distinctions between commandos and special forces, traces their evolution during the war, explains how the Anglo-American alliance functioned in the creation and use of these units, looks at their command and control arrangements, evaluates their impact, and assesses their cost-effectiveness.

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Under the Eagle Samuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker By Samuel Holiday and Robert S. McPherson $19.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4389-7 · 288 Pages Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit secret communications on the battlefield. Based on extensive interviews with Robert S. McPherson, Under the Eagle is Holiday’s vivid account of his own story. It is the only book-length oral history of a Navajo code talker in which the narrator relates his experiences in his own voice and words.

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Going for Broke Japanese American Soldiers in the War against Nazi Germany By James M. McCaffrey $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4337-8 · 408 Pages In Going for Broke, historian James M. McCaffrey traces the experiences of Japanese American soldiers in World War II, from training to some of the deadliest combat in Europe. McCaffrey’s account makes clear that like other American soldiers in World War II, the second generation Japanese Americans relied on their personal determination, social values, and training to “go for broke”—to bet everything, even their lives.

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A Military History of the Cold War, 1944–1962 By Jonathan M. House $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4262-3 · 560 Pages The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the 1950s and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affected millions of lives. This book is the first comprehensive, multinational overview of military affairs during the early Cold War, beginning with conflicts during World War II in Warsaw, Athens, and Saigon and ending with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The Complexity of Modern Asymmetric Warfare By Max G. Manwaring $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4265-4 · 224 Pages Manwaring’s multidimensional paradigm offers military and civilian leaders a much needed blueprint for achieving strategic victories and ensuring global security now and in the future. It combines military and police efforts with politics, diplomacy, economics, psychology, and ethics. The challenge he presents to civilian and military leaders is to take probable enemy perspectives into consideration, and turn resultant conceptions into strategic victories.

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Into the Breach at Pusan The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade in the Korean War By Kenneth W. Estes $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4254-8 · 216 Pages In the opening campaign of the Korean War, the First Provisional Marine Brigade participated in a massive effort by United States and South Korean forces in 1950 to turn back the North Korean invasion of the Republic of Korea. The brigade’s actions loom large in marine lore. Historian and retired marine Kenneth W. Estes undertakes a fresh investigation of the marines’ and Eighth Army’s fight for Pusan.

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After My Lai My Year Commanding First Platoon, Charlie Company By Gary W. Bray $16.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4045-2 · 184 Pages In the fall of 1969, Gary Bray landed in South Vietnam as a recently married, freshly minted second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. His assignment was not enviable: leading the platoon whose former members had committed the My Lai massacre—the murder of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians—eighteen months earlier. In this compelling memoir, he shares his experiences of Vietnam in the direct wake of that terrible event.

Hero Street, U.S.A. The Story of Little Mexico’s Fallen Soldiers By Marc Wilson $19.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4012-4 · 224 Pages Second Street in Silvis, Illinois, was a poor neighborhood during the Great Depression that had become home to Mexicans fleeing revolution in their homeland. In 1971 it was officially renamed “Hero Street” to commemorate its claim to the highest per-capita casualty rate from any neighborhood during World War II. Marc Wilson now tells the story of this community and the young men it sent to fight for their adopted country.

On the Western Front with the Rainbow Division A World War I Diary By Vernon E. Kniptash Edited by E. Bruce Geelhoed $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4032-2 · 256 Pages With clarity and compelling detail, Kniptash describes the experiences of an ordinary soldier thrust into the most violent conflict the world had seen. He tells of his enthusiasm upon enlistment and of the horrors of combat that followed, as well as the drudgery of daily routine. He renders unforgettable profiles of his fellow soldiers and commanders, and manages despite the strains of warfare to leaven his writing with humor.

Finding a Fallen Hero The Death of a Ball Turret Gunner By Bob Korkuc $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3892-3 · 272 Pages Finding a Fallen Hero is a compelling story that blends a wartime drama with a primer on specialized research. Author Bob Korkuc initially set out to learn how his Uncle Tony came to rest at Arlington. In the process, he also unraveled the mystery of what occurred over the skies of Germany half a century ago.

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Volunteers on the Veld Britain’s Citizen-Soldiers and the South African War, 1899–1902 By Stephen M. Miller $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3864-0 · 248 Pages When the Second Boer War erupted in South Africa in 1899, Great Britain was confident that victory would come quickly and decisively. Instead, the war lasted for three grueling years. This book spotlights Britain’s “citizen army” to show who these volunteers were, why they enlisted, how they were trained— and how they quickly became disillusioned when they found themselves committed not to the supposed glories of conventional battle but instead to a prolonged guerrilla war.

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New in Paperback Of Uncommon Birth Dakota Sons in Vietnam By Mark St. Pierre $19.95s Paper · 9780806153452 · 320 Pages A work of creative nonfiction inspired by the true story of two South Dakota teenagers, Mark St. Pierre’s Of Uncommon Birth draws upon extensive interviews and exhaustive research in military archives to present a harrowing story of two young men—one white, one Indian—caught in the vortex of the Vietnam War.

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Borrowed Soldiers Americans under British Command, 1918 By Mitchell A. Yockelson $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5349-0 · 332 Pages The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the war’s end. Yet despite the importance of this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant attention from historians. Mitchell A. Yockelson delivers a comprehensive study of the first time American and British soldiers who fought together as a coalition force more than twenty years before D-Day.

From POW to Blue Angel The Story of Commander Dusty Rhodes By Jim Armstrong $19.95s Paper · 9780806153421 · 320 Pages As only the third fighter pilot to become leader of the Blue Angels, Raleigh E. “Dusty” Rhodes helped develop the most famous aerobatics team ever formed. From POW to Blue Angel tells his story—a fast-paced drama teeming with action and human interest and capturing the initiative and tenacity of a true American hero.

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Napoleon in Italy The Sieges of Mantua, 1796–1799 By Phillip R. Cuccia $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5184-7 · 328 Pages In Napoleon in Italy, Phillip R. Cuccia brings to light two understudied aspects of these trying periods in Mantua’s history: siege warfare and the conditions it created inside the city. Unlike other military histories of the era, Napoleon in Italy brings to light the words of soldiers, leaders, and citizens who experienced the sieges firsthand. Cuccia also shows how the sieges had consequences long after they were over.

The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France By William R. Nester $29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5189-2 · 400 Pages In The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France, the only comprehensive account from the French perspective, William R. Nester explains how and why the French were defeated. He explores the fascinating personalities and epic events that shaped French diplomacy, strategy, and tactics and determined North America’s destiny.

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Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek By Louis Kraft $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5188-5 · 336 Pages When Edward W. Wynkoop arrived in Colorado Territory during the 1858 gold rush, he was one of many ambitious newcomers seeking wealth in a promising land mostly inhabited by American Indians. After he worked as a miner, sheriff, bartender, and land speculator, Wynkoop’s life drastically changed after he joined the First Colorado Volunteers to fight for the Union during the Civil War.

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All for the King’s Shilling The British Soldier under Wellington, 1808–1814 By Edward J. Coss $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5177-9 · 392 Pages The British troops have long been branded by the Duke of Wellington’s own words—“scum of the earth”—and assumed to have been society’s ne’er-dowells or criminals who enlisted to escape justice. Now Edward J. Coss shows to the contrary that most of these redcoats were respectable laborers and tradesmen and that it was mainly their working-class status that prompted the duke’s derision.

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Three Days in the Shenandoah Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester By Gary Ecelbarger $21.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5186-1 · 288 Pages The battles of Front Royal and Winchester are the stuff of Civil War legend. Stonewall Jackson swept away an isolated Union division under the command of Nathaniel Banks and made his presence in the northern Shenandoah Valley so frightful a prospect that it triggered an overreaction from President Lincoln, yielding huge benefits for the Confederacy. Gary Ecelbarger has undertaken a comprehensive reassessment of those battles to show their influence on both war strategy and the continuation of the conflict.

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Climax at Gallipoli The Failure of the August Offensive By Rhys Crawley $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5206-6 · 376 Pages Climax at Gallipoli examines the performance of the Allies’ Mediterranean Expeditionary Force from the beginning of the Gallipoli Campaign to the bitter end. Crawley reminds us that in 1915, the second year of the war, the Allies were still trying to adapt to a new form of warfare, with static defense replacing the maneuver and offensive strategies of earlier British doctrine.

Bracketing the Enemy Forward Observers in World War II By John R. Walker $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4843-4 · 300 Pages After the end of World War II, General George Patton declared that artillery had won the war. Yet howitzers did not achieve victory on their own. Crucial to the success of these big guns were forward observers, artillerymen on the front lines who directed the artillery fire. In Bracketing the Enemy, John R. Walker offers the first full-length history of forward observer teams during World War II.

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A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps My Mother’s Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, and a Life Remade By Barbara Rylko-Bauer $19.95 Paper · 9780806151915 · 416 Pages Jadwiga Lenartowicz Rylko, was a young Polish Catholic physician in Lódz at the start of World War II. Suspected of resistance activities, she was arrested in January 1944. For the next fifteen months, she endured three Nazi concentration camps and a forty-two-day death march, spending part of this time working as a prisoner-doctor to Jewish slave laborers. A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps follows Jadzia from her childhood and medical training, through her wartime experiences, to her struggles to create a new life in the postwar world.

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All Canada in the Hands of the British General Jeffery Amherst and the 1760 Campaign to Conquer New France By Douglas R. Cubbison $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4849-6 · 304 Pages Using archival materials, archaeological evidence, and the firsthand accounts of junior provincial soldiers, Cubbison takes us from the eighteenth-century antagonisms between the British and French in the New World through the Seven Years’ War, to the final siege and its historic significance for colonial Canada. In one of the most decisive victories of the Seven Years’ War, Amherst was able, after a mere four weeks, to claim all of Canada.

Invasion of Laos, 1971 Lam Son 719 By Robert D. Sander $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4840-3 · 304 Pages Sander chronicles not only the planning and execution of the operation but also the maneuvers of the bastions of political and military power during the ten-year effort to end Communist infiltration of South Vietnam, leading up to Lam Son 719. The result is a picture from disparate perspectives: the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations; the South Vietnamese government led by President Nguyen Van Thieu; and senior U.S. military commanders and army aviators.

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A Generous and Merciful Enemy Life for German Prisoners of War during the American Revolution By Daniel Krebs $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4844-1 · 396 Pages Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities entered service as British auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. Drawing on research in German military records and common soldiers’ letters and diaries, Daniel Krebs places the prisoners on center stage in A Generous and Merciful Enemy, portraying them as individuals rather than simply as numbers in casualty lists.

Uncovering History Archaeological Investigations at the Little Bighorn By Douglas D. Scott $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4662-1 · 264 pages Almost as soon as the last shot was fired in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the battlefield became an archaeological site. For many years afterward, as fascination with the famed 1876 fight intensified, visitors to the area scavenged the many relics left behind. It took decades, however, before researchers began to tease information from the battle’s debris—and the new field of battlefield archaeology began to emerge. In Uncovering History, renowned archaeologist Douglas D. Scott offers a comprehensive account of investigations at the Little Bighorn, from the earliest collecting efforts to early-twentieth-century findings.

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Terrible Justice Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 1854–1868 By Doreen Chaky $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4652-2 · 408 Pages Terrible Justice explores not only relations between the Sioux and their opponents but also the discord among Sioux bands themselves. Moving beyond earlier historians’ focus on the Brulé and Oglala bands, Chaky examines how the northern, southern, and Minnesota Sioux bands all became involved in and were affected by the U.S. invasion.

Columns of Vengeance Soldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 1863–1864 By Paul N. Beck $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4596-9· 328 Pages In summer 1862, Minnesotans found themselves fighting interconnected wars—the first against the rebellious Southern states, and the second an internal war against the Sioux. While the Civil War was more important to the future of the United States, the Dakota War of 1862 proved far more destructive to the people of Minnesota—both whites and American Indians. In Columns of Vengeance, historian Paul N. Beck offers a reappraisal of the Punitive Expeditions of 1863 and 1864, the U.S. Army’s response to the Dakota War of 1862.

Dragoons in Apacheland Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 1846–1861 By William S. Kiser $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4650-8 · 376 pages In the fifteen years prior to the American Civil War, the U.S. Army established a presence in the Apache Indian homeland of southern New Mexico. The Apaches presented an obstacle to be overcome in making the region safe for Anglo settlers. In Dragoons in Apacheland, Kiser recounts the conflicts that ensued and examines how both Apache warriors and American troops shaped the future of the Southwest Borderlands.

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No Turning Point The Saratoga Campaign in Perspective By Theodore Corbett $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4661-3 · 448 Pages Setting the Battle of Saratoga in its social and political context, Theodore Corbett examines Saratoga and its aftermath as part of ongoing conflicts among the settlers of the Hudson and Champlain valleys of New York, Canada, and Vermont. This long, more local view reveals that the American victory actually resolved very little.

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Victory at Peleliu The 81st Infantry Division’s Pacific Campaign By Bobby C. Blair and John P. DeCioccio $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4680-5 · 320 Pages When the 1st Marine Division began its invasion of Peleliu in September 1944, the operation in the South Pacific was to take but four days. In fact, capturing this small coral island in the Palaus with its strategic airstrip took two months and involved some of the bloodiest fighting of the Second World War in the Pacific. Now Bobby C. Blair and John Peter DeCioccio tell the story of this campaign through the eyes of the 81st Infantry to offer a revised assessment.

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The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon By Jeremy Black $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4458-0 · 304 Pages The War of 1812 is etched into American memory with the burning of the Capitol and the White House by British forces and the decisive naval battle of New Orleans. Now a respected British military historian offers an international perspective on the conflict to better gauge its significance. In The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon, Jeremy Black provides a dramatic account of the war framed within a wider political and economic context than most American historians have previously considered.

Hancock’s War Conflict on the Southern Plains By William Y. Chalfant $26.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4459-7 · 296 pages This first thorough scholarly history of the ill-conceived expedition offers an unequivocal evaluation of military strategies and a culturally sensitive interpretation of Indian motivations and reactions. Chalfant explores the vastly different ways of life that separated the Cheyennes and U.S. policymakers, and argues that neither side was willing or able to understand the needs of the other. He shows how Hancock’s efforts were counterproductive, brought untold misery to Indians and whites alike, and led to the wars of 1868.

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Never Come to Peace Again Pontiac’s Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America By David Dixon $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4462-7 · 376 Pages Prior to the American Revolution, the Ohio River Valley was a cauldron of competing interests: Indian, colonial, and imperial. The conflict known as Pontiac’s Uprising, which lasted from 1763 until 1766, erupted out of this volatile atmosphere. Never Come to Peace Again, the first complete account of Pontiac’s Uprising to appear in nearly fifty years, is a richly detailed account of the causes, conduct, and consequences of events that proved pivotal in American colonial history.

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Civil War Arkansas, 1863 The Battle for a State By Mark K. Christ $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4433-7 · 336 Pages The Arkansas River Valley is one of the most fertile regions in the South. During the Civil War, the river also served as a vital artery for moving troops and supplies. In 1863 the battle to wrest control of the valley was, in effect, a battle for the state itself. In spite of its importance, however, this campaign is often overshadowed by the siege of Vicksburg. Now Mark K. Christ offers the first detailed military assessment of parallel events in Arkansas, describing their consequences for both Union and Confederate powers.

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Once Upon a Time in War The 99th Division in World War II By Robert E. Humphrey $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4454-2 · 376 Pages For the soldier on the front lines of World War II, a lifetime of terror and suffering could be crammed into a few horrific hours of combat. This was especially true for members of the 99th Infantry Division who repelled the Germans in the Battle of the Bulge and engaged in some of the most dramatic, hard-fought actions of the war. Once Upon a Time in War presents a stirring view of combat from the perspective of the common soldier.

George Crook From the Redwoods to Appomattox By Paul Magid $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4441-4 · 416 Pages Renowned for his prominent role in the Apache and Sioux wars, General George Crook (1828–90) was considered by William Tecumseh Sherman to be his greatest Indian-fighting general. Although Crook was feared by Indian opponents on the battlefield, in defeat the tribes found him a true friend and advocate who earned their trust and friendship when he spoke out in their defense against political corruption and greed. George Crook offers insight into the influences that later would make this general both a nemesis of the Indian tribes and their ardent advocate.

Burgoyne and the Saratoga Campaign His Papers By Douglas R. Cubbison $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4461-0 · 400 Pages In Burgoyne and the Saratoga Campaign, Douglas R. Cubbison presents the papers that Burgoyne gathered preparatory to his appearance before Parliament, together with Cubbison’s own interpretive narrative of the campaign, based on these documents and other sources. The papers, most of them published here for the first time, comprise Burgoyne’s correspondence with the governor general of Canada, the British secretary of state for America, and the commander of the British army during the Saratoga expedition.

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The Capture of Louisbourg, 1758 By Hugh Boscawen $26.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4413-9 · 408 Pages Hugh Boscawen, an experienced soldier and sailor, and a direct descendant of Admiral the Hon. Edward Boscawen, who commanded the Royal Navy fleet at Louisbourg, examines the pivotal 1758 Louisbourg campaign from both the British and French perspectives. Drawing on myriad primary sources, including previously unpublished correspondence, Boscawen also answers the question “What did the soldiers and sailors who fought there do all day?”

Soldiers West Biographies from the Military Frontier Edited by Paul Andrew Hutton and Durwood Ball $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4465-8 · 420 Pages Soldiers West views the turbulent history of the West from the perspective of fifteen senior army officers—including Philip H. Sheridan, George Armstrong Custer, and Nelson A. Miles—who were assigned to bring order to the region. This revised edition of Paul Andrew Hutton’s popular work adds five new biographies, and essays from the first edition have been updated to incorporate recent scholarship.

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Custer Reader Edited by Paul Andrew Hutton $26.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3465-9 · 608 Pages George Armstrong Custer, America’s most famously unfortunate soldier, has been the subject of scores of books, but The Custer Reader is unique as a substantial source of classic writings about and by him. Here is Custer as seen by himself, his contemporaries, and leading scholars. Combining firstperson narratives, essays, and photographs, this book provides a complete introduction to Custer’s controversial personality and career and the evolution of the Custer myth.

Phil Sheridan and His Army By Paul A. Hutton $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3188-7 · 496 Pages “Paul Hutton’s study of Phil Sheridan in the West is authoritative, readable, and an important contribution to the literature of westward expansion. Although headquartered in Chicago, Sheridan played a crucial role in the opening of the West. His command stretched from the Missouri to the Rockies and from Mexico to Canada, and all the Indian Wars of the Great Plains fell under his direction. Hutton ably narrates and interprets Sheridan’s western career from the perspective of the top command rather than the battlefield leader. His book is good history and good reading.”—Robert M. Utley

Deliverance from the Little Big Horn Doctor Henry Porter and Custer’s Seventh Cavalry By Joan Nabseth Stevenson $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4416-0 · 232 Pages Of the three surgeons who accompanied Custer’s Seventh Cavalry on June 25, 1876, only the youngest, twenty-eight-year-old Henry Porter, survived that day’s ordeal, riding through a gauntlet of Indian attackers and up the steep bluffs to Major Marcus Reno’s hilltop position. But the story of Dr. Porter’s wartime exploits goes far beyond the battle itself. In this compelling narrative of military endurance and medical ingenuity, Joan Nabseth Stevenson opens a new window on the Battle of the Little Big Horn by re-creating the desperate struggle for survival during the fight and in its wake.

Torn by War The Civil War Journal of Mary Adelia Byers Edited by Samuel R. Phillips $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4395-8 · 248 Pages The Civil War divided the nation, communities, and families. The town of Batesville, Arkansas, found itself occupied three times by the Union army. This compelling book gives a unique perspective on the war’s western edge through the diary of Mary Adelia Byers (1847–1918), who began recording her thoughts and observations during the Union occupation of Batesville in 1862.

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From Boer War to World War Tactical Reform of the British Army, 1902–1914 By Spencer Jones $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4415-3 · 296 Pages In October 1899, the British went to war against the South African Boer republics of Transvaal and Orange Free State, expecting little resistance. A string of early defeats in the Boer War shook the military’s confidence. Historian Spencer Jones focuses on this bitter combat experience in From Boer War to World War, showing how it crucially shaped the British Army’s tactical development in the years that followed.

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“Hang Them All”

The Campaigns of Sargon II, King of Assyria, 722–705 b.c.

George Wright and the Plateau Indian War, 1858 By Donald L. Cutler $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5337-7 · 280 Pages

By Sarah C. Melville $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5403-9 · 320 Pages A first-ever military study of Sargon II, the storied leader of the Assyrians who molded the ancient world’s most successful military empire to that time.

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Guibert Father of Napoleon’s Grande Armée By Jonathan Abel $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5443-5 · 320 Pages Abel examines Guibert’s life and explores how his martial theories shaped the development of Napolean’s army, the campaigns they conducted, and the early successes it enjoyed.

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Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars Comparing Genocide and Conquest By Edward Westermann $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5433-6 · 352 Pages A comparative examination of Nazi eastward expansion in World War II and U.S. westward expansion between 1850 and 1890.

A narrative history of Col. George Wright’s ruthless and successful campaign to subdue the Indian tribes of the Upper Columbia Plateau in 1858.

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At Sword’s Point, Part 2 A Documentary History of the Utah War, 1858–1859 By William P. MacKinnon $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-386-8 · 704 Pages The second installment of the comprehensive documentary history of the Utah War, At Sword’s Point.

Out West with Kearny Expeditions of the 1st U.S. Dragoons, 1833–1848 By Will Gorenfeld and John Gorenfeld $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5394-0 · 416 Pages A narrative history of the First Dragoon Regiment between 1833 and 1845, intended to show the contributions made by the First Dragoons and the impact they had on the overall westward expansion of the United States.

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Powder River

Slaughter at the Chapel

Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War Paul L. Hedren $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5383-4 · 384 Pages

The Battle of Ezra Church, 1864 By Gary Ecelbarger $26.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5499-2 · 272 Pages

A comprehensive account of the Battle of Powder River, the opening battle of the Great Sioux War in 1876.

A Civil War battle history of a pivotal and bloody encounter during the 1864 Atlanta campaign.

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Soldiering in the Shadow of Wounded Knee

Road to War The 1871 Yellowstone Surveys By M. John Lubetkin $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-429-2 · 312 Pages A collection of key primary documents that explain the 1871 Yellowstone River expedition to survey a route for the Northern Pacific Railroad.

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The 1891 Diary of Private Hartford G. Clark, Sixth U.S. Cavalry Edited by Jerome A. Greene $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-440-7 · 208 Pages A soldier’s diary that chronicles day-to-day life at the time of Wounded Knee.

Sign Talker

Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums

Hugh Lenox Scott Remembers Indian Country By Hugh Lenox Scott Edited by R. Eli Paul $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5354-4 · 312 Pages

Horse-Mounted Bands of the U.S. Army, 1820–1940 By Bruce P. Gleason $32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5479-4 · 296 Pages

An edited, annotated reproduction of that portion of Hugh Lennox Scott’s 1928 autobiography, Some Memories of a Soldier, pertaining to his early career and service with Indian peoples.

A history of horse-mounted military bands and field musicians from the War of 1812 to WWII.

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